Is The American Dream Over?
The American Dream is feeling less and less tangible for people in the United States, with confidence rapidly plummeting. A recent survey by the Wall Street Journal and the National Opinion Research Center found that merely 36% of voters said the American Dream “still holds true,” down from the 53% who believed in U.S. prospects in a 2012 edition of the survey and 48% in 2016.
How To Create Your Own Luck At Work And In Life
Fundamentally, luck arises when preparation meets opportunity. This means that you can create chances through intentional choices and behaviors. These strategies can help increase the likelihood of encountering lucky opportunities and achieving success.
Let’s Go Live with Jack Kelly
Episode- How A ‘Zero F's Given’ Mindset Can Improve Your Career And Life
The "Zero F's Given" mindset refers to not caring about unimportant opinions, judgments or expectations from others. It's about focusing your mental and emotional energy on what truly matters to you and not wasting it on things that don't align with your priorities or values. In this LinkedIn Live, Ruth Sternberg and I discuss how adopting this mindset can help in your career and life.
Episode- What Super Successful People Do During The Holiday Season
This is a season where it's socially acceptable to coast. Most people enjoy the holiday slowdown and pay scant attention to their jobs and careers. They put themselves on autopilot and glide through the end of the year. People who have achieved great success in their lives and careers look at the holiday season very differently. They recognize that there is still so much yet to accomplish. For them, there is enough time to take proactive steps to improve themselves and enhance their careers and lives.
What To Do If You Dream Of Reinventing And Pivoting Your Career
Entering a new year is a milestone event, and it causes you to start taking stock of your work life. It makes you start contemplating what you want to do for the next five, 10 or 20 years. For many people, they may be bored and tired of their job. Due to the ascendancy of artificial intelligence and companies laying off and offshoring jobs to other countries, others may find themselves forced into finding a new job or career.
These Are The 10 Highest-Paying Tech Jobs In The U.S.
In today’s evolving digital landscape, practically every industry has a technical element—from finance, education, retail, aerospace, healthcare, consulting, and more. This is positive news for aspiring individuals in the technology and programming fields, as their expertise is in high demand. It also means they are no longer pigeonholed to a traditional career path in tech and can explore in-house job opportunities beyond Big Tech companies, such as Google, Meta, Apple and Amazon.
How People Fall Into The Traps Of ‘Busywork’ And ‘False Urgency’
You have all seen this in the office. A person is heads-down, grinding away at something that looks to be a high priority. You can see the tenseness in their facial expressions. They don’t look around the room, make eye contact or entertain the slightest chit-chat with co-workers. On one hand, it seems like the employee is diligently working, but in actuality, they may be engaged in low-value “busywork.”
The Blind Ambition Podcast
Lia Garvin, Former Team Operations And Organizational Effectiveness Lead At Google: Lessons From Big Tech You Can Use To Improve Your Performance
Lia gives us an in-depth look into Google's program management and team operations. We explore how she became a program manager and what program managers do at Google and other Big Tech companies, including how they work with software engineers, product managers, designers and executives to map risks, ship regularly to meet deadlines, and help people perform at their best.
Lia explains why imposter syndrome can be so common in the tech industry and how she recommends getting over it. We also got her to reveal what she did at Google to improve team performance and the communication and feedback tooling and frameworks they used so that you can use them to level up your career, build relationships, and land your next, better role.
How To Get A Job In Tough Times: All The Advice You Need To Succeed From A Top Executive Recruiter
You’re concerned about finding a job during these difficult times. Don’t worry; it will happen. There’s an old saying, “Tough times make tough people.” Jack Kelly will help guide you every step of the way in your job search to ensure that you stay strong, resilient and positive, and get that great, new job.
